stockade
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In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
The Times, taking the opposite line, reported that Glenn and another student, Brendon Barr, were adjudged “incorrigible” and clocked in a stockade as a last resort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024
He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
Sr. recalls he started writing when he was in the stockade during the army.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2022
A thousand captives watched through the wooden bars of their stockade as the horn was lifted high.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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It needs foreign aid to replenish its stockades and help even the odds.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
In the later stages of Cahokia, the ruling class surrounded themselves with fortified wooden stockades, including a two-mile long wall that enclosed Monks Mound.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022
This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.
From Fox News ● Oct. 28, 2021
They built neither stockades nor trenches around their camps.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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I lingered until Michaela stockaded me in upturned chairs and dragged back to the flat.
From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2018
Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So, unquestioned, we passed out into the country, where a few heavily stockaded farms flanked the road, always built on heights, and always free from trees or any cover that might shelter an attacking enemy.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
All this done, we marched to Mamo, some miles beyond Tamu, where we halted in the rice fields attached to the village which was very strongly stockaded.
From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone
He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Maha Nemiow had moved directly upon Prome; advancing slowly, and constantly stockading himself.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
The rest of the army were armed with swords and spears, and carried implements for stockading and entrenching.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading, and the sufferings of all had been terrible.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
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